Sporty Group is hiring a
Technical Risk and Odds Analyst

Summary

The job is for a Technical Risk and Odds Analyst at Sporty, a successful and globally established sports betting platform. The role involves analyzing betting patterns, collaborating with teams, troubleshooting issues, and providing technical support to the in-house trading team.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
• Sportsbook industry experience, understanding trading issues and betting concepts is essential
• Understanding of quantitative models and mathematical concepts
• Translate product demands into technical requirements within sports betting/risk management context and clearly define expectations for developers
• Backend technology experience is preferable including reading and understanding of backend codebases; programming fundamentals expertise (at least 1 object oriented language), database modeling and APIs
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey complex risk management concepts to developers and/or traders

Responsibilities

• Analyze betting patterns and performance to identify potential vulnerabilities and areas of opportunity
• Make recommendations to improve the internal trading tools whilst working closely with internal stakeholders
• Collaborate with teams to ensure constant innovation in improve pricing and risk management products as a whole
• Participate in monitoring and optimizing risk management processes from a technical perspective to recommend improvements and best practices
• Investigate issues by troubleshooting, analyzing codebase, inspecting logs etc
• Act as second level of technical support to in-house Trading team
• Gather, review and analyze business and industry data, including KPIs, financial reports and other key metrics using data analytics tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with large data sets, statistical data analysis, predictive modeling is considered an advantage
• Proven experience working with numbers and risk management tools as well as analyzing and interpreting financial data

Benefits

• Quarterly and flash bonuses
• We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Referral bonuses
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Annual company retreat
• Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
• Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system
• Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
• Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members